To hell with facts! We need stories!
– Ken Kesey
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- I don’t seem able to get it straight in my mind…. – Ken Kesey
- Society is what decides who’s sane and who isn’t, so you got to measure up. – Ken Kesey
- All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. – Ken Kesey
- He’s the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people. – Ken Kesey
- You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things. – Ken Kesey
- I’d think, maybe he truly is something extraordinary. He’s what he is, that’s it. Maybe that makes him strong enough, being what he is. – Ken Kesey
- In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain’t many! – Ken Kesey
- He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy – Ken Kesey
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- These,- he said gravely, -œare unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant. – Aldous Huxley
- Knowing your feelings won’t change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. – Marlene Chism
- Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
- Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. – Clarence Day Jr
- Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. – Chuck Todd
- Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded. – Mike Klepper
- You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts. – Steven Levy
- We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about ‘coming back,’ and so on. But they are all stories. – Steve Hagen
- No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come. – Billy Graham
- People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. – Ray Bradbury
- Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. – Christopher Marlowe
- History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell. – Michelle Richmond
- If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your beain will live, but your heart will die – Cassandra Clare
- Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die. – Cassandra Clare
- Facts & figures go to the brain. And, the brain tends to forget . Stories go straight to the heart. They make us feel. And, the heart remembers. – Dawn Gluskin
- I try to avoid stories that end with…and he was never seen again. – Ken Poirot
- The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. – Mitch Albom
- What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
- We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people’s stories – that’s how it goes, does it not? – Susan Fletcher
- Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
- There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds. – Kelly Barnhill
- Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic. – Joan Holub
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true? – Rick Chiantaretto
- Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories – Nourhan Mamdouh
- The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful – Lee BiceMatheson
- We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. – Danielle Ganek